Charlie Dent Quotes

It is critical that we have a comprehensive energy plan to provide affordable and reliable supplies of energy so that our economy will not be dependent on foreign sources of energy.

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

It is clear that our national security and economic growth are tied to affordable, abundant energy sources.

My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.

For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills.

Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.

Gas is by far and away the most important element of our energy policy.

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.

Barring a miracle, this nation can never be self-sufficient in energy again.

The world’s demand for energy will never stop.

The Department of Energy was created for one purpose: To obtain energy independence. Yet where are we?

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.

I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.

The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.

We have to look at the long-term energy requirements of our country and how we figure out how to get off foreign oil. That is the ultimate goal because we are dependent so much on foreign oil that we are really strapped in what we can do as a country.

I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing.

I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources.

Our current energy policy is bankrupt.

And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.

When it comes to fossil fuels, we're going to find more here and use less. Over time, we're going to become energy independent. I am tired of sending $300 billion overseas to buy oil from people who hate our guts. The choice between a weak economy and a strong environment is a false choice, that is not the choice I'll offer America.

The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.